NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

A qingbai censer with an openwork cover molded with similar leafy scroll, dated to the Northern Song dynasty, was excavated from the Baozhi Pagoda in Linggu Temple, Nanjing city, and is now in the collection of the Nanjing City Museum, see Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji – 7 – Jiangsu Shanghai (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 7, Beijing, 2008, no. 112. Another qingbai censer with an openwork cover molded with chrysanthemum design, also dated to the Northern Song dynasty, is illustrated ibid., p. 111. See, also, a related but smaller (7.8 cm. high) white incense burner with an openwork cover, with a similar tall, splayed foot, in the Ji’nan Institute of Archaeology, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji - 6 - Shandong (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 6, Shandong, Beijing, 2008, no. 100.